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Vobile to Ustream: Don't blame us for your Hugo Awards SNAFU

Vobile to Ustream: Don't blame us for your Hugo Awards SNAFU
GigaOM
Remember that Hugo Awards live stream that got yanked off Ustream earlier this week just as author Neil Gaiman was delivering his acceptance speech? Ustream blamed Vobile's content filters for the incident. Now Vobile is shooting back and saying it was ...
GigaOM

'Third wave' of TV on screen near you
Stock and Land
According to the biggest online video-sharing site in the world, YouTube, the so-called third wave of television is an unstoppable force and it's increasingly being used by traditional TV and big brands to drive business their way. Alex Carloss, head ...

YouTube coy about its new Apple app
The Australian
ONLINE video-sharing behemoth YouTube is coy on the launch of its app dedicated to Apple's upcoming mobile operating environment after duo's relationship hit a roadblock last month. The YouTube app on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads give ...

Daily News Staff Report
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook representatives dropped in at Thursday night's dedication ceremony for Menlo-Atherton High School's new Digital Media Arts Building and presented a $46,000 check to help support the project. Counting the $50,000 it already contributed, ...

Gameloft Studio Settles in New Orleans, Fuels A Growing Industry
Forbes
Courted by the city's enticing assets and Louisiana's generous tax incentive program, Gameloft was the first major game development studio to open in New Orleans, joining an impressive roster of large and small interactive digital media, production ...
Forbes

Online Darwinism And The Evolution of Performance Marketing
MediaPost Communications
With apologies to Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution, my embrace of the Online Darwinism Theory, a concept I developed after watching so many affiliates drop like flies in recent months, encapsulates my views of the evolution of digital media ...

AFL, NRL will bypass pay TV: Turnbull
The Australian
MALCOLM Turnbull's crystal ball tells him the AFL and NRL will one day cut out pay-TV and go direct to football fans using digital media applications. "I think the AFL will cut out the pay TV platforms,'' the opposition communications spokesman told an ...

Digital PR, $ocial Media and ROI
Business 2 Community
According to the Chartered Institute of Marketing Social Media Benchmark study a skills gap is preventing businesses from getting value from social media. The study found that 1 in 5 marketers said their business was “fundamentally ill-equipped to take ...

How data-driven content marketing changes the game
By Mary Wallace
... recipients than ever before. By leveraging behavioral data, as well as the basic demographic data individuals tells us about themselves, media companies are now uniquely positioned to create, package and deliver content aligned with the audience's needs. ... This “digital body language” is the composite of all digital activity: each email that is opened or clicked, each web visit, each form completed or abandoned, and each referral from a social media site. Segmenting the audience ...
eMedia Vitals - Online magazine...

Spreecast raises $7M to take on Google+ Hangouts
GigaOM
A group video chat that can be broadcasted to an unlimited number of viewers: Sounds like Google+ Hangouts, doesn't it? Video chat Startup Spreecast believes it can compete with Hangouts by offering more interactivity, and it just raised a $7 Series A ...
GigaOM

A Look Back at Barack Obama's First Online Video Appearance
Tubefilter
[Editor's Note: The First Drafts Series is a Tubefilter column that highlights and critiques the first online videos from the world's greatest online video stars. Check out the last edition of FDS featuring Fred.] Before he supported same-sex couples...
Tubefilter

Low-Price Video Host Vzaar Opens North American Office
OnlineVideo.net
“An online video strategy is a must-have for every brand and every company, large or small,” said Jim Henry, Vzaar's vice president of sales, who works out of the new office. “The U.S. market is leading the charge in harnessing the marketing and sales ...
OnlineVideo.net

Online Video | Econsultancy
We are looking at maybe offering our clients video as part of our web design / SEO service and wonder if we should set up a new branded site for this with a ...

The revolution will be live streamed on Ustream
TheNewsTribune.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A protester looked at Nathan Grant and gestured behind him. Police lined the streets during the Tuesday night protest march through uptown Charlotte. “They don't care what we have to say,” the protester said. “Our voices are silenced ...
TheNewsTribune.com

Livestream Enters Switcher Market With Studio HD500
TV Technology
NEW YORK—Livestream is introducing the Livestream Studio HD500, an all-in-one broadcast video switcher. The HD500 is designed to perform as a standalone, broadcast quality live video switcher for in-venue screen broadcasting, live-to-tape production ...

Latest Old Spice Viral Hit Pushes Vimeo Into the Spotlight
AdAge.com
As the web's default operating system for video, and its first social platform at scale, YouTube powered the branded video phenomenon that took off about five years ago. Indeed, YouTube is the one constant of all but one other branded campaign on the ...
AdAge.com

Ustream to Re-Broadcast 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony on Sunday ...
By John DeNardo
Chicago, Illinois, USA – Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), is pleased to announce that the 2012 Hugo Awards Ceremony will be re-broadcast in its entirety and ad-free via Ustream on Sunday, September 9, ...
SF Signal

YouTube's WIGS channel finds the drama in women
The Associated Press
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer – 1 minute ago. NEW YORK (AP) — Not to play favorites, but if you'd like to sample the tasty new WIGS channel, just take 9 minutes and try "Denise." This nifty little set piece was written by celebrated ...
The Associated Press

When Will Amazon Take on Netflix Directly? Ask Jeff Bezos.
All Things Digital
But unlike Netflix, you can only use Amazon's subscription service if you're a member of Amazon Prime, its $79-a-year free-shipping program. Many people, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, expect Amazon to eventually detach its library from Prime and ...

Young rapper's slaying linked to feuds on Twitter, YouTube
Chicago Tribune
Indeed, over the last few years, many South Side gang members have created rap videos to taunt and threaten their rivals, posting them on YouTube and other websites, veteran gang investigators have said. In addition to crime-ridden Englewood, ...
Chicago Tribune

Half Of Netflix Subscribers Would Switch To A Pay TV Streaming ...
By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
Guarantee you a Pay TV service would end up being twice as expensive as the monthly Netflixfee. Or ad supported in some fashion like Hulu. Or you'd have to purchase it in a bundle package with other channels to keep the cost down.
Deadline.com

YouTube Analytics: Measuring the Value of Your Video | Search ...
By Todd Bailey
For the past several years, rich content has been on the rise, and Google subsidiary, YouTube, has remained the undisputed leader of online video sharing. Currently, the site controls approximately 43 percent of the Internet video market.
Search Engine Journal

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